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Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Democrats' failure and our future: "Instead of listening to the strategists, who don't believe it's possible to dramatically change our society, can we finally be bold and listen to the artists and the outsiders and the radicals and the freaks and the avant-garde and the base and the youth and the anarchists and all those who don't want to do business as usual with the limousine liberalism of both the elite Democrats and Republicans? Can we listen to the dreamers instead of the doubters?"

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Please Stop Telling Me It Will Be OK: For many of us, the election results brought up not only anxiety and fear, but past traumas and grief. So please stop telling each other that it will be OK.

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1942 All Over Again?: Oh, hell no. Carl Higbie, a Trump surrogate, justified creating a national registry of all Muslims, citing Japanese internment as a success.

Against Extinction: "Know that the violation, ownership, entitlement and destruction to the gender non-conforming and women's bodies is deeply connected to the legacies of slavery and genocide and to the continued invasion, colonization, and occupation of lands abroad -- this is the vile extent and pervasiveness of rape culture. Know that a true critique and denouncement of capitalism can only come from those who do not trivialize the resistance to gentrification, to anti-blackness, to Orientalism, to Islamophobia. Know that sex work, like all work under brutal capitalism and white supremacy, must be decolonized, not legalized."

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The real secret to Asian American success was not education: The stereotype is that Asian Americans became successful through education, but according to an economist it's because society became less racist toward Asians. (We would love to see this article's findings through a critical race lens...)

Obituary: Yumi Heo: Children's author and illustrator Yumi Heo, creator of more than 30 distinctive books praised for their varying visual perspectives and stylized, often whimsical imagery, recently died after a long battle with cancer.